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No. 863,542. PATENTED AUG. 13, 1907. B. LEGUYER. HARNESS PAD.

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HARNESS-PAD Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 13, 1907.

Application filed February 2, 1907- Serial No. 355,461-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMILE LECUYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salina, in the county of Saline and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harness-Pads, of which 'the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in harness pads.

Its objects are principally to dispense with the use of nuts or burs to aid in connecting together of the pads and the tree; to provide for the ready application of the pad-tree to any kind or pattern of pad; to also provide for the use of any form of pad-skirt also without the aid of burs or nuts as in the application of the pad-tree aforesaid; and to carry out these objects in a simple, expeditious and effective manner.

Said invention consists of certain features or instrumentalities substantially as hereinafter fully disclosed and specifically pointed out by the claims.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention Figure 1 is a perspective view thereof. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse section produced through the line of separation between the sections of a pad-tree member. Fig. 4 is a disassembled perspective view of the pad-tree plate-clamp and one half of the yoke or link uniting the opposite plateclamps of the two members or halves of a complete pad-tree. Figs. 5 and 6 are like views of the two sections of a padtree member, respectively.

In the disclosure of my invention, I form each padtree member 1 of two sections or halves, the lower being designated as 2 and the upper, as 3, and provide each half or section with an interiorly screw-threaded halfsleeve 4 projecting from both the inner and outer surfaces of said pad-member sections or halves, the inner projecting portions of said half-sleeves being let into a circular orifice 5 produced in the outer leather portion of the pad 6. The lower section or half has at one end upon'its inner surface an upward pointed or extending hooked projection 7, taking into an aperture 8 in the leather-portion of the pad for the retention of that end of the latter thereon. Said section or half 2 has also upon its outer surface preferably two outstanding straight studs 9, 10, one preferably longer than the other, for insertion through, and connecting together, one upon the other, the portions of the pad-skirt 11 and for the retention of the latter in place. The upper padtree section 3 has projecting, from the inner surfaces of preferably divergent terminalportions 12, 13 at its upper end, two downward-pointed or extending hooked projections 14 effective for entering or engaging apertures 15 produced in the inner leather covering of the pad, for securing the corresponding end of the pad thereon.

Overlying the pad-tree member of the sectional construction above described, is a plate or clamp 16 having apertures a, a, receiving the ends of the studs 9, 10 aforesaid, and an orifice 17 therein, with an upraised surrounding extension or collar 18 formed upon said plate or clamp, and through which orifice passes the outer portions of the half-sleeves 4 and which plate provides for the retention of said half-sleeves in effective relation one to the other, as the screw-threaded shankportion of the line or rein receiving terret 19 is screwed, as it is, into said halfsleeves and whereby the sections of the pad-tree member are effectively held in fixed relative position and to the pad. A yoke or link-member 20, only one half of which is disclosed is adapted to be secured in place by the screw-threaded shank of the check-rein or water hook (not shown), said shank passing through said link or yoke at 21. To said link or yoke is connected the overlying clamp-plate of each pad-tree member, each clamp-plate having its upper end formed into a narrow extension as at 22, which extension is bent to form a right-angle as at 23. Said extension has its extreme upper terminal portion initially inserted through a transverse slot 24 in the yoke or link 20 and its said right-angled bend subsequently dropped into said slot while said terminal portion is itself finally dropped into a second like slot 25 formed in the upper section 3 of the pad-tree member, near its upper end, thus providing for the intimate interlocking of all of these parts.

As before noted, it will be observed that the use of all nuts or burs for aiding the effective retention of the parts in place is completely obviated, both as to the attachment of the pad-tree to the pads and to the padskirts, while the parts are all quickly and effectively assembled and the pad-tree is adapted to be applied to any kind or pattern of pad desired.

I claim 1. A harness-pad tree-member comprising two sections provided with interior-1y screw-threaded half-sleeves and with means for their attachment to a pad, screw-thread equipped means for engagement with said half-sleeves and means for the retention of said half-sleeves in effective relation with said screw-thread equipped means.

2. A harnesspad tree-member comprising two sections provided with interior-1y screw-threaded half-sleeves and hooked projections effective for their attachment to a pad,

and screw-thread equipped means for engagement with said half-sleeves and means for the retention of said halfsleeves and said screw-thread equipped means in efifective relation one with the other.

3. A harness-pad tree-member comprising two sections provided with interior-1y screw-threaded half-sleeves and with means for their attachment to a pad, screw-thread equipped means for engagement with said half-sleeves, a plate for the retention of said halfs1eeves in effective 10 relation with said screw-thread equipped means, and a yoke having" a slot, said plate having an upper end exten' sion, and one of said sections of said pad-tree member also having a slot, said plate-extension adapted to engage said slots.

In testimony whereof I atfix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

EMILE LECUYER.

Witnesses H. C. TOBEY, D. R. WAGSTAFF. 

